Oppression is not a point of view
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Azmi Beshara | Al-Ahram Weekly | 8-14 January 2004 Land is at the heart of the drama unfolding in Palestine. But it is not the only thing, argues Azmi Beshara Rhetoric about demography so dominates Israel’s political discourse that one might be tempted to assume that Israel has abandoned its preferred designation as the
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Brian Klug | The Nation | February 2, 2004 In 1879 the German journalist Wilhelm Marr, a former socialist and anarchist, founded an organization that was novel in two ways. It was the first political party based on a platform of hostility to Jews. And it introduced the world to a new word: “anti-Semite.”
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Anne Gwynne | 14 January 2004 Anne Gwynne writes to The Guardian in response to Jonathan Spyer’s article (14/01/04) In an article entitled “Israel’s Demographic Time Bomb” by Jonathan Spyer, formerly Adviser to the Government of Ariel Sharon, The Guardian (14/01/04) ran this heading, ‘Jews risk becoming a minority in their own land’ (well,
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ilan Pappe | London Review of Books, Volume 25, No. 1 | January 2004 Even though we live in an age of intensive and intrusive media coverage, TV viewers in Israel were lucky to catch a glimpse of the meetings that produced the Geneva Accord. The clip we watched in November showed a group
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Paul de Rooij | Dissident Voice | 22 December 2003 Review of The Politics of Anti-Semitism, edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair (AK Press, 2003) There’s no more explosive topic in American public life today than the issue of Israel, its treatment of the Palestinians and its influence on American politics. Yet
» Read moreTimes Literary Supplement 06/09/1996 Can we find equivalents for philosophical terms? If philosophy really is (as its enemies keep saying) just another branch of European literature, still it is a pretty remarkable one. It is cosmopolitan like no other. Even the most rudimentary philosophical library will contain works written in Greek, Latin, French, English and German; and even the most
» Read moreBy Grant Rosenberg/Paris, Time, May 15, 2007 Early on in the 2004 supernatural Russian thriller Night Watch, the protagonist, trying to prevent a witch from casting a spell on his unborn child, yells at the top of his lungs in protest. For English-speaking audiences, the subtitles do more than just translate the literal meaning: the words “no” and “stop” with three exclamation
» Read moreCALL FOR PARTICIPANTS STRIDON Translation Studies Doctoral and Teacher Training Summer School 27 June – 8 July 2016, Piran, Slovenia Guest Lecturer 2016: Professor Brian James Baer, Kent State University STRIDON Translation Studies Doctoral Summer School and Teacher Training Summer School is a joint initiative by 5 different universities (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; Boğaziçi University, Turkey; University of Turku and University of East
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom & Uri Avnery’s Site | 11 September 2004 Two shocking manifestos were published this week. Both call for comment. One of them declares that dismantling the settlements in the Gaza Strip is a “crime against humanity”. It does not mention that they were set up on the land reserves
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Anne Gwynne | Axis of Logic | 11 September 2004 At 8:30am yesterday, the newsreader on Pacifica Radio’s Morning Show told us of Shaul Mofaz’s latest announcement that “Israel has locked down the West Bank and Gaza Strip until the Jewish holiday season ends in October…from fears of Palestinian attacks.” (Direct quotation). But what
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